A new GOP budget bill could leave nearly 11 million Americans without health insurance, according to a recent Congressional Budget Office analysis.This legislation proposes significant cuts to Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance program (SNAP), impacting access to vital healthcare services. Discover how the proposed changes to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace might further … Read more
Pregnant women are more often uninsured and have worse access to routine medical care in states that ban (or restrict) abortion care, according to a new study appearing in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, published by Elsevier, from researchers at Harvard Medical School, the City University of New York’s Hunter College, and other institutions. … Read more
Emerging research suggests that prior mammography screening within five years of breast cancer diagnosis for seniors significantly reduces the risks of later-stage diagnosis and breast cancer-specific mortality. For the study, recently published in JAMA Network Open, researchers reviewed data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER)-Medicare database for 13,028 women who had screening mammography-detected … Read more
Many teenagers enter adulthood with significant risk factors for cardiovascular disease, and the transition from adolescence to adulthood is a key time to address these risk factors and reduce the risk of developing future cardiovascular disease, according to a new American Heart Association scientific statement published today in the Journal of the American Heart Association. According … Read more
As they studied two years of prison-inmate data, Laura Dague and a team of fellow health researchers noticed that one particular scenario kept cropping up. That scenario involved the days when an inmate is released and returns to their community. A significant number were released with chronic health issues and promptly signed up for government-subsidized … Read more
TOPLINE: Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) rates were 24%-37% higher in adults with autism than the general population and having both conditions was linked to worse outcomes, a new cohort study showed. METHODOLOGY: This population-based cohort study included more than 3.5 million Medicaid-enrolled adults aged 18 years or older (mean age, 33.5 years; 53% women; 60% White … Read more
Recognition of telehealth as an effective strategy for delivering treatment for substance use disorder (SUD) has raised hopes for improving access to this treatment in settings with limited transportation or when time constraints compromise regular use of consistent access to in-person substance use treatment. But the findings from a team of researchers from the Virginia … Read more
Here is teh content you requested: MedRide services to resume after state agency lifts suspension A spokesperson with MedRide says that the suspension has been lifted, but “MedRide is working closely with TransDev and HCPF to be fully reinstated as a Medicaid transportation service provider.” URL: krdo.com medride’s suspension of patient rides lifted by Colorado … Read more
Researchers have long known that patients who leave emergency departments before medically advised use more emergency care services, are more likely to be readmitted to the hospital and face higher costs of care-as well as increased mortality rates. Until now, however, little has been known about national, multi-year trends, including the impact of the COVID-19 … Read more